Multi-Middleware Web Services

A few years ago, integrating applications simply required putting the right middleware in place. Today, however, the proliferation of different middleware approaches and technologies has complicated matters. Application integration now implies middleware integration. Essentially, we need “middleware for middleware” that allows us to noninvasively integrate disparate middleware systems. The economic downturn of recent years has led many to question large and expensive “rip and replace” projects. Such projects, which attempt to homogenize the enterprise by ripping everything out and replacing it with the latest silver bullet, almost always fail. IT groups instead prefer to leave working systems in place and get them to talk to each other without changing them, regardless of which suppliers they come from, which technologies they employ, what languages they’re written in, or what protocols they speak.